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United States-Russian Relations, 1917-1933, Raymond L. Cravens

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

“One should doff one’s cap to the statue of Jupiter, in case he returned to power.” – Lord Byron

Our task in this study is to determine whether the words of Lord Byron are true in the realm of International Power Politics. This is a study of the application of the principle of non-recognition – the refusal of acknowledgement – to Russo-American relations during the period from 1917 to 1933.

The year was 1917, and the Gladiator of Capitalism stood over the prostrate form of Russian Bolshevism and appealed for the decision of “life” or “death” to be meted out …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 24, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Society Page
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Kentucky Building News
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Alumni Flashes
• Birds I View
• Your Manners are Showing

This issue contains articles:

• Grid Practice Starts March 17; 9 Tilts Slated
• Dr. Arndt Stickles and Professor William Craig Would Like to Serve Another Forty Years at Western
• Toppers Tangle With Delta Five Tonight in SIAA
• Sugg, Matt. Russia for Peace Alexander Kerensky States
• Notice to All Families in Veteran Village
• Poland Not Free, Wladyslaw Kulski Charges
• Hal Gilmore and Matt Sugg Head Talisman
• Band …

Ua1c12 559th Aaa (Aw) Bn Broadside, Paul Wint Jr.

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Broadside of two ships with illegible inscription at top and dog and shorthand message along the bottom. 559th AAA (AW) BN Paul D. Wint, Jr. in lower right corner. The 559th American Antiaircraft Artillery AW Battalion entered World War II in June 1944.

Ua1c12 835th Chemical Co. Air Operations Broadside, W. D. R.

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Broadside of bomb with 835th Chemical Co. Air Operations Municipal Airport by W.D.R. Names inscribed along the top are S/Sgt. Rogers, Cpl. Enright, Pvt. Hamrick, Lt. Holland, Pvt. Benavides, Pvt. Castro and Pvt. Reynolds. Many "thanks" to the people of Bowling Green is written in the lower left corner. The 835th was part of the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Ua1c12 559th Aaa (Aw) Bn Broadside, Unknown

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Broadside of of logo of the 559th AAA (AW) BN with names of company members on one quarter of a sheet of paper. Transcription of notations and signatures:

571st AEA Medical Detachment (Independent) T/5 Chas. Gans (?)

A - Battery 1st Sgt. Bing Miller S/Sgt. B.J. Martin S/Sgt. A. Hawkins S/Sgt. G. Swesnen S/Sgt B. Mallioux S/Sgt. M. Enevald S/Sgt. C. Watts Sgt. F. Glasser Sgt. E. Baseman Sgt. M. Krisan Pfc. Harry Shuler Pfc John Caggiano T/5 Ernest E. Black Pvt. Ed Nestel Cpl. Geo. O. Diamond Pvt. Donald D. Dreyr (?) Pvt. Patsy Lombardo

B - Battery Cpl. …

Ua1c12 Co. A 27th Tank Battalion, 20th Armored Division Broadside, Unknown

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Broadside of thanks from Company A of the 27th Tank Battalion of the 20th Armored Division. The inscription is: To those of you who made our lives happier. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The broadside was signed by the members of the battalion and it includes a photograph of a tank.

Notations and signatures: Cpl. Bob "Red" Irwin Pvt. Jack "Snafu" Arkush Co. Capt. T. Piuhl T/5 Francis W. Cassidy Pvt. Ray F. Kitchen (K.) T/5 "Slugger" Derkman Cpl. "Sloan" Mullens (?) T/5 Ed Larger Sgt. George E. Blosus Cpl. Bruce Keating Pfc. Melvin Sveltenfucs "Irish" …

Ua3/2/4 This America Of Ours, Paul Garrett

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Speech delivered by Paul Garrett at unidentified meeting.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Uncle Sam to Start Drawing at Noon Tuesday – Draft Registration
• 3 Bowling Green Business University Students Die in Wrecks – Johnnie Wiygul, Imogene Sandlin, Thomas Moore
• Ewing, Galloway, Donor of Visual Library, Visits Hill
• Group Plans M.C. Ford Portrait
• Fourteenth Annual Homecoming Scheduled for Next Week-end
• Fall Production May Be “Tops” – Western Players
• Garrett, Paul. A Word from the President
• Attendance at Dad’s …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Summer School to Open June10
• Unusual Musical Program Given
• Virginia Helm, Hugh Johnson Pupils Heard
• Over 300 to Be Included in Graduating Classes for 1940
• Two Geography Trips Taken
• W.J. Edens, H.L. Stevens Head Depts.
• Talisman Being Distributed Today
• Third Monthly Recital Presented May 16
• Student Wins National Honor – Polly McClure
• Weldon, Robert. Application for Peace
• Don’t Lose Your Balance
• Last Class …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Western Honors Students’ Mothers Today with Varied Programs
• Modern Choir Sings at Chapel
• New York Tour Leaves June 2 – World’s Fair
• Berea Defeats Western, Eastern
• Stow the Pans! – Cedar House
• Miss Lena Logan Honored
• Remember Those Snakes?
• Speech Contest Coming Soon
• In Memoriam – Joint Club Banquet
• Million-Dollar Brain Storm – Adolf Hitler
• Snapshots
• A Capella Chorus Performs Twice
• Agriculture Alumnus …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Six Seniors Included in 1940 College “Who’s Who”
• Life Magazine May Photograph Textile Display – Kentucky Museum
• Peace Syndicate Formed at Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association
• Music Contest Attracts 3,500
• Governor Appoints New Regents
• Senators to try Constable Searcy, Alleged Murderer – Congress Debating Club
• College Heights Herald Receives Three Awards
• Barbed Wire and Trenches
• We Can’t Live Without ‘Em
• Court Trouble – Tennis …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with the Pay
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Honor Roll for Fall Term Released; 10 Make All “A’s”
• John Lewis Delights Students
• Seniors Discuss U. S. Neutrality
• Rachel Lowrey-Mitchell Crabtree
• Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book to Be Released Tomorrow
• Cherry Country Life Club Meets
• Social Affairs Get Spotlight
• Our Own Fault
• Let’s Try It
• Scarlett O’Hara Passes as Spring(?) Zephyrs Blow
• Baylor, Robert. Desk Set Is Given …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Faculty Notes – Arndt Stickles, Ercell Egbert, History, Bert Smith, Gordon Wilson, T.S. Marks, Horace McMurtry, Mary Gear
• Distinguished Persons to Appear Here – American Association of University Women
• Borrone, Bert. Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book Grew out of Long Interest
• Miss Ellen Jeffries Sponsors Field Study Trip
• International Affairs Are Discussed
• Two Unusual Squirrels Are Discovered – White Squirrels
• Walter Wright Selected Head of High …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Club Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light
• Training School

This issue contains articles:

• Prof. Franz Strahm Gives Recital in Chapel
• Eighteen Students Receive Penmanship Certificates
• Howard Robey receives Honor at University of Kentucky
• Haywood Brown Initiated into Phi Delta
• Alumni Association Officers – Carl Cheyney, R.I. Glover
• Western Grad to Practice Surgery in Texas – Buell Lawrence
• Graduate Employed on Tour of West – Houston Gardner
• Music Building Foreman Attended Western – E.R. Baucum
• Harry Spilman Speaks for Manufacturers
• Arndt …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Training School

This issue contains articles:

• Robinson, Ogden Contest to Be Held in May
• Western’s First Line Quintet Placed on All-SIAATeam
• Chester Channon Baby Christened February 26 – Mary Channon
• Rehearsals Get under Way as Cast Is Completed for ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’
• Student Undergoes Operation at City Hospital
• Thirty-five Singers to compose Chorus on Baltimore Trip
• ROTC Drill to Begin Soon
• Registrar E.H. Canon’s Father Dies after Short Illness – W.S. Canon
• Zack …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Editorials
• Personals
• Society
• Sports Shorts

This issue contains articles:

• Fall Registration Brings 1575 to College Heights
• W.E. Watson Accepts Position in State Institution – Kentucky Institute for the Feeble-Minded
• Ezell Welburn Conducts Study Center in Owensboro
• Training School Adopts New Program – Football
• Western Band Enrolls 108
• Western Eleven Meets Howard Tomorrow
• C.H. Jaggers Assumes Duties as College High Director
• College Heights 10 Years Ago
• Walter Malone Leaves Hill
• College High Enrollment Shows Increase
• Popular Co-ed to Represent Western at Tobacco Festival – Martha …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 41, Western Kentucky University, Whas, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly radio broadcast from Western Kentucky University. Participants in this broadcast included Earl Moore, Dale Grabill, Mary McChesney and Arndt Stickles who delivered the address A Resume of the Spanish Situation.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xii, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Personals
• Society
• The Sport Light
• Throbbing Hearts

This issue contains articles:

• Academy of Science Convenes Today
• Mothers Are to Be Honored on Hill Today
• Junior Prom Tonight
• Dr. Judson Griffin to Sponsor Ten Day Tour through Virginias
• Commencement Plans Complete
• Dorothy Kash Has Poem in Modern Poetry Anthology
• Men’s Glee Club Ends Tour Today
• Dr. Gordon Wilson
• Bowling Green Stone to Be Put in New Building – Cherry Hall
• Congress Club Banquet Is Set for Wednesday
• State Association Honors Librarian – Margie Helm …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 21, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Franz Strahm, Frances Richards, Paul Huddleston and June Purdom.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 19, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Margarette Ramsey, Sue Farley, Lavelton Dye and Arndt Stickles.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 11, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included ? Thompson, William Spriegel, Earl Moore, ? Gardiner, W.L. Matthews, Finley Grise, J.H. Poteet, N.O. Taff, Minnie Martin, James Cornette, Bert Smith and Bessie Cherry.

The Origin, Development & Present Status Of County Government In Kentucky, Walton Reynolds

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the origin and development of our present county government and to give the essentials of the present status. It is intended to present a brief outline history of the growth and changes in the administrative organization of the county from the days of the shire and the Norman Invasion of England to the reign of the Stuarts; and then to transplant that form of local government into the forested wastes of James River, and there watch it adapt itself to the frontier environment of a new world. In the process of …

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook - General Subjects 1916-1918, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Scrapbook created in the president's office of clippings related to World War I, Henry Cherry's bid for governor and United States politics during the war. Page number correspond to original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• . . . Tells How He'd March to Mexico, p. 17
• A Perfect Picture of German Work, p. 34
• A Veritable Flashlight, p. 19
• Abercrombie, John. Speech, Congressional Record, June 2, 1916, p. 12
• Addresses Made at Flag Raising, 1917 p.9
• All Kentucky is in Food Crusade, p. 13
• America at War in Self Defense, Declares Lane, p. 11
• America Now at Point …